Barnes & Noble Announces "Buy a NOOK®, We'll Give a Book," Inviting Holiday Shoppers to Give the Gift of Reading to Children in Need

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer
of content, digital media and educational products, today announced its
national “Buy a NOOK, We'll Give a Book” initiative to share the joy of
reading this holiday season. Now through December 25, the company will
donate one new book to First Book, which provides new books for children
in need, for every NOOK tablet or reader purchased in Barnes & Noble
stores or online at www.nook.com.

For 20 years, Barnes & Noble's Holiday Book Drive has resulted in the
gift of over a million books annually to thousands of charitable
organizations nationwide. Last year alone, Barnes & Noble customers and
booksellers donated over 1.2 million books that were distributed to over
2,000 local charities, and the company is on track to exceed that figure
this year. “Buy a NOOK, We'll Give a Book” extends the generous spirit
of this annual program and gives customers even more ways to spread the
joy of reading and make a difference in the lives of others. Now through
December 25, customers shopping in Barnes & Noble stores and online can
purchase any NOOK device – including the new stunning NOOK HD®
and NOOK® HD+, award-winning NOOK Simple Touch™
and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight™ and critically
acclaimed NOOK Tablet™ and NOOK Color™ – and the
company will match each sale with a new book donation to First Book.

“As the country's largest bookseller, we are deeply committed to
fostering literacy and a love of books and reading. The tremendous
success of our Holiday Book Drive is because of our generous customers
and booksellers who share that commitment,” said William Lynch, CEO of
Barnes & Noble. “With NOOK tablets and e-readers topping many wish lists
this year, we wanted to provide a new way for holiday shoppers to share
their love of reading. So with every NOOK purchased, on behalf of that
customer Barnes & Noble will send a new book to a child in need.”

The perfect holiday gifts this season, Barnes & Noble offers an
award-winning line of NOOK tablets and readers for people of all ages
and interests. Designed for both personal use and the whole family to
share, customers can experience digital reading and entertainment like
never before and access over 3 million books, magazines, catalogs,
movies, TV shows and more on the new NOOK HD, the lightest and
highest-resolution 7-inch tablet, and NOOK HD+, the world's lightest,
lowest priced full HD tablet. NOOK HD is super lightweight and portable,
fits easily in one hand and features an unprecedented HD display so
customers will want to take it everywhere. For those who want to enjoy
reading and entertainment on a larger scale, NOOK HD+ offers a must-see
full HD 9-inch display for up to 1080p for movies, magazines and more.
NOOK HD is available in two colors, “Snow” and “Smoke,” and starts at
$199, and the 9-inch NOOK HD+ is an unbeatable value, starting at just
$269.

Barnes & Noble also offers critically-acclaimed E Ink®
Readers, NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight,
starting at just $79 with no annoying ads. NOOK Simple Touch is the
easiest-to-use Reader with the world's best, most paper-like reading
screen and longest battery life. NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight adds a
patent-pending lighting technology for reading in the dark, so it's like
two devices in one, as amazing at the beach as it is in bed. Both of the
lightweight devices feature built-in access via WiFi® to
Barnes & Noble's leading digital catalog and an ergonomic form with a
soft-touch back that's comfortable to hold for hours. Customers can
enjoy Always Free NOOK Support™ in all of Barnes & Noble's
neighborhood bookstores and NOOK Digital Shops™ where a team
of booksellers will be on hand to demonstrate and answer any questions
about the NOOK portfolio.

For more information or to participate in the “Buy a NOOK, We'll Give a
Book” initiative, customers can visit www.nook.com/holidaybookdrive
or visit the NOOK Digital Shops and displays in any of Barnes & Noble's
nearly 700 bookstores nationwide.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading
retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company
operates 689 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the
Web's largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of digital
reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™ (www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 674 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be
named a J.D. Power and Associated 2012 Customer Service Champion and is
only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the
number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music
and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer
satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring
Top 100 Edition).

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK®, NOOK Store™, NOOK Video™, NOOK
Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their
respective owners.

NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you
love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and
immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access
to the expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 3 million digital
books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the
ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through
free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble's
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk and leading
retailers.